Cook the Book Fridays: Chocolate-Covered (not Chai) Mocha Bars from Everyday Dorie

This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s cookbook, Everyday Dorie and it’s one I wasn’t sure about making since I am not really a “tea person”. I don’t like tea-flavoured things and I am not a fan of chai (note: Did you know that “chai” means “tea” in Hindi? Here’s … Read more

Java Mini Mads from Baking with Dorie on a black serving tray.

Tuesdays with Dorie: Java Mini Mads from Baking with Dorie

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe is Java Mini Mads from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking with Dorie. Java Mini Mads are coffee-flavoured madeleines made in a more-accessible mini muffin tin (<<< affiliate link but this is my “go-to” mini muffin tin!). Madeleines are typically baked in shell-shaped moulds (<<< affiliate link but these are very good) but, … Read more

Mochaccicno Muffins from Baking with Dorie on a baking tray.

Tuesdays with Dorie: Mochaccicno Muffins from Baking with Dorie

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe is Mochaccicno Muffins from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking with Dorie – chocolate/coffee muffins that are fast to make and tasty (though I could have used more of the coffee flavour, to be honest, especially in a “morning” muffin!). These have both ground coffee (not coffee powder) and coffee syrup (like extract) … Read more

Stack of Espresso Chocolate Sablés from Dorie's Cookies on a baking tray.

Tuesdays with Dorie: Espresso Chocolate Sablés from Dorie’s Cookies

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies was for a coffee-flavoured sablé cookie with chocolate. Dorie says: My original recipe for these deeply coffee-flavored and amply chocolate-flecked cookies produced a classic shortbread with the melt-in-your- mouth texture that’s the hallmark of great shortbread and the result of using only confectioners’ sugar in the … Read more

Caramelized-Coffee Bean Pots de Crème from Baking Chez Moi on eatlivetravelwrite.com

Tuesdays with Dorie (Baking Chez Moi): Caramelized-Coffee Bean Pots de Crème

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi is a French classic dessert – pot de crème. Dorie’s version is a riff on a version she’s tried in a neighbourhood café in France and she ups the game a bit by caramelizing the coffee beans which flavour the custard. This all sounded very … Read more